Microsoft SCOM Management Packs (MPs)

By extending the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product offering, we enable you to do all your systems administration using a single user interface. You will be able to monitor the health and performance of your systems with precision because the alerts that you will receive from using SCOM MPs from NiCE will pinpoint you directly to the source of the problem. Our solutions work on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.

Regardless of whether you run System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2012, System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1, or System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2, we have the MPs to cater to you. Contact us today for an obligation-free product evaluation.

HP Operations Manager Smart Plug-ins (SPIs)

HP Operations Manager is a system monitoring package that helps IT pros manage their physical and virtual information technology environments. This enables systems administrators to be more efficient service providers in their businesses because HP Operations Manager provides a single monitoring console for cloud and virtual infrastructures.

NiCE Smart Plug-Ins (SPIs) for HP Operations Manager complement this system monitoring package by adding first class Application Monitoring capabilities. With UNIX, Windows, and Linux as the supported operating systems, you can rest assured that we have a solution for you. NiCE SPIs help you to ensure your business critical applications are at peak performance and availability at all times – the way your business demands it.

News

NiCE will be a sponsor at the prestigious Microsoft Ignite event! As a Microsoft System Center Alliance partner, we strive to be active members within the Microsoft Community and are keen to share our knowledge and conversely learn from the Microsoft Community at large. Come by our booth in the exhibition area to see our System Center offerings for 2015! We would be happy to discuss our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) solutions that extend the view of SCOM onto your applications…

The MPx Alliance, comprised of Veeam, ComTrade, and NiCE, is a powerful collaboration set to provide customers with best in class management solutions. The MPs from these leading vendors natively integrate into Microsoft System Center, complementing each other....

Smart Application Monitoring You Can Rely On

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Quick Information

What are the top 10 issues that Database and System Administrators face in the workplace?

Regardless of whether it is a comment on SystemCenterCentral, TechNet, or a System Center User Group meeting where a group member complains to an MVP, the same concerns come from System Administrators time and time again. Interesting to note is that whether the database administrator is working with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, 2012 SP1, 2012 R2 or any other platforms – the concerns are the same. We are not talking about deployment issues…we are talking about deeper concerns regarding job performance.

We have compiled a top 10 list of these concerns below. These concerns are being able to:

Perform comprehensive infrastructure monitoring

Perform in-depth application performance monitoring

Run reports that give deep insight and diagnostics into their databases

Run queries to receive alerts based on unique conditions

Perform health checks on the availability of their systems

Identify problems with pinpoint accuracy and the ability to troubleshoot

Generate comprehensive reports (that make you look smart)

Automating regular functions so that redundancy is reduced

Delivering on SLA’s and providing optimal IT service management

Save time and money

With Microsoft System Center Operations Manager MPs from NiCE, Application and System Management is now simpler, less stressful and much more efficient and best of all… our MPs address ALL the concerns listed above. We have developed our SCOM MPs with the user in mind.

With Application Management, it is important to have a solution that generates instant alerts, stream lines data received and allows you to manage your applications in the most time and cost-effective manner. Our enterprise ready solutions will always be up-to-date making sure that whatever is new with System Center and SCOM will be mirrored with our MPs that have great new features and functionalities.

For more specific information on what our solutions do, see our solutions section, read our 2014 datasheets that provide a full product catalog, and read our white papers for more technical information.

Smart Application Monitoring You Can Rely On

NEW - Comprehensive list of SCOM 2012 SP1 Management Packs

The only comprehensive list of SCOM Management Packs in 2014 that you need to know is:

NiCE SCOM Management Packs have been featured on various MVP blogs, various System Center Forums, on Microsoft PinPoint, on the myITforum.com SCOM Management Packs Wiki, on Wikipedia, and on ‘The Unofficial System Center Catalog’. As a Microsoft System Center Appliance partner, our solutions are highly recommended in the Microsoft System Center Community and by our valued customers.

To find out more about each individual Microsoft SCOM Management Pack, that we offer, click on one of the MPs listed above where you can:

Download datasheets

Download support matrices

Download white papers

Request a free demo

Request a free evaluation

Email the NiCE Solutions team for a quote or any additional information required

Below is a list of the basic system requirements that you require to use our SCOM MP:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1

System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Why NiCE SCOM MPs are better

There are many SCOM Management Pack catalogs and SCOM 2012 Management Pack lists available on the web but there are no lists that say which SCOM MP is better and why. We have put together a matrix for you that shows you the key features of all our SCOM Management Packs in one table. See below.

NiCE Management Pack

Features

OpsMgr integration details

NiCE Oracle MP

NiCE Oracle MP

100+ predefined Monitors and Rules, incl. Oracle SQL analysis

Oracle 12c Pluggable Database (PDB) support

Local monitoring, using BEQ protocol, ASM Support

Full agent based support for Oracle RAC and DataGuard

Oracle Recovery Manager (Backup) monitoring

OpsMgr Diagnostic Task for troubleshooting available.

Full Oracle Alert Log analysis

Consider it an alternative for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)!

Full Agent based solution, using OpsMgr 2012 load balancing and HA features

SCOM and Server Monitoring

According to Microsoft, System Center 2012 – Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective. It also helps to ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, as well as offering comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

Microsoft released a lot of information on “What’s new in System Center 2012 for Operations Manager” in November 2013. Below is a direct link to these articles published on TechNet:

NiCE SCOM MPs integrate seamlessly with System Center 2012 and the changes implemented by Microsoft ensuring that our SCOM Management Pack users have a single pane of glass view of their system. Our cross-platform monitoring solutions ensure that you are able to monitor your servers whether you are using UNIX, Linux or Windows.

With such a comprehensive monitoring solution at your fingertips, it is possible to:

To monitor services, devices, and operations for many systems in a single console.

Get insight into the state of your IT environment through:

different views that show health and performance information

receiving alerts generated for availability and performance

Generate reports about the state of your systems and servers.

For more information on each of our SCOM MPs and their specific features and benefits, please see the solutions section of this website. If you have specific questions, please email: solutions@nice.de and we will come back to you as soon as possible.